This long-forgotten Passover custom was dealt a bitter blow by a sharp wife in a 15th century Haggadah…
Hostage-taking and forced migration were just two methods used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Poland a century ago
The only known manuscript of The Chronicle of Pope Paul IV is at the National Library in Jerusalem…
Eight Black youths were hastily sentenced to death in 1931 Alabama. Global outcry ensued, and a flamboyant New York Jewish lawyer was sent down to defend them…
The letter with which Stefan Zweig took leave of the world is preserved today in the archives of the National Library of Israel
How Jewish was the international tongue that never quite made it…?
Message sent to ‘The Holy Ari’ reflects his influence at the time, outside the mystical realm
The “Yung Yiddish” museum, tucked away inside a massive bus station, is something in between a library and an underground club. Its collections have survived two world wars in Europe. Whether they can survive the disparaging attitude in Israel remains to be seen.
A decorated German soldier in World War I, Richard Stern opposed Nazism from within. After fleeing, he joined the US Army at age 43, and soon became a hero there, as well…
Years after Zalman Pollack was a star of the Jewish world, his life’s work was rediscovered…